New Delhi:
Shashi Tharoor, junior minister for human resource development, announced this evening that his Twitter account had been hacked.
"Sorry folks, my @Twitter account has been hacked & will be temporarily deactivated. Bear with me while we solve this." Mr Tharoor tweeted at 5:48 pm on Wednesday evening.
His announcement was preceded by a series of tweets from his handle to a Pakistani columnist Mehr Tarar, that clearly caught her by surprise and had Twitter abuzz.
"Okay. What's going on? Who's tweeting to me? I had an 'affair' with Shashi Tharoor and he's tweeting to me??? How does that work?" Ms Tarar tweeted.
Ms Tarar had received tweets like: "You unfollowed me. You don't RT me and you don't answer me on twitter. I can live with your favourites. I have your personal validation", from Mr Tharoor's account.
Mr Tharoor is one of the most popular Indian politicians on Twitter and is followed by over 2 million people.